Sustainable Communication Skills of Sports Management Students Examination in Terms of Demographic Variables

Abstract

The aim of this research is to evaluate the perception of communication skills of students studying in the Sports Management Department of Physical Education and Sports Faculties and to investigate whether there is a significant difference in students’ communication skills according to gender, age, parental education level, and household monthly income level. A total of 287 students participated in the research, including 159 females and 128 males, who were studying in different classes of the Sports Management Department of İstanbul Nişantaşı University, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, during the 2022-2023 academic year. Descriptive and exploratory methods, aiming to reveal the current situation, were used in the research. In the first stage, relevant literature on the subject was reviewed, previous research findings were examined, and based on the obtained information, a detailed theoretical framework related to the topic of the thesis was prepared. In the second stage, data collection and analysis process were conducted based on this theoretical framework. In the research, the Communication Skills Inventory, a 45-item scale developed by Ersanlı and Balcı (1998), was used as the data collection tool. For the purpose of determining students’ demographic characteristics, a “Personal Information Form” prepared by the researcher was used. The evaluation of the obtained data was performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences for Windows (SPSS) 29.0 software package. In the analysis and evaluations, number and percentage analyses were used to determine demographic characteristics, and Kruskall Wallis test and Mann-Whitney tests were utilized to derive statistical differences. As a result, based on the findings, it was determined that demographic variables such as age and household monthly income, among the students studying in the Department of Sports Management at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, created a significant difference in communication skills at a statistical level. However, it was found that gender and parental education level variables did not create a significant difference in students’ communication skills.